Monday, September 21, 2009

Our shared book this week is the Three Billy Goats Gruff. It is a play and we are taking turns playing the different characters. The goats cross a bridge - A BEAM BRIDGE!! We watched this video on Room 2's blog and have put it on our blog as well.

With gusts of wind and a beautiful clear sky we flew our parachutes on the school field. The children squealed with delight as the wind tugged at their parachutes and they let them go. We were fascinated in the way that when the wind died down and our parachutes fell they would travel along the ground by the wind. We had a great deal of fun and used the experience to write a personal recount.

Later in the week we began to find out about the Auckland Harbour Bridge from the books and the internet. We are collating these facts on a large class Y chart.

Over the past few weeks we have explored the three main types of bridges - arch, suspension and beam bridge. We found out a lot about how they look and what makes them strong.

We took part in the technology challenge along with the rest of the junior classes. We all had to construct our bridges using newspaper, string and tape. We had to work in teams. It was a lot of fun and it was a great opportunity to show how well we could work as a team.

We have written information reports about swing bridges and have begun to label the parts of a swing bridge using a image we imported on KidPix - Look out for these reports on our blog in the next few weeks.

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